Advanced/Senior Practitioner Early Intervention

We are looking for experienced and passionate Qualified Social Workers to join a dedicated Early Intervention Team. Our Client has positions available in their Early Intervention team based with a local authority in the West Midlands. You will be supported by an experienced team manager. Our client has a strong and positive culture in this West Midlands local authority, which we would love you to be a part of. We offer regular monthly supervision and monthly group reflective supervision.

In this role as an Advanced/Senior Practitioner in the Early Intervention you will ensure that eligible children receive assessments, plans and service packages appropriate to meet their needs and improve their life chance. You support, assess and mentor Newly Qualified Social Workers and Social Work Students as directed by the Principal Manager. You will deputise for the Principal Manager as required.

Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting in the delivery of person centred, safe and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience you'll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills you'll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.

You'll be committed to ensure positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you'll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly however, you'll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.

Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experienced in working with children and families including those from vulnerable groups.
• Experience working within Court, Children in Need and Child Protection.
• Supporting child and families subject to CIN and Child Protection planning, pre-proceedings and court proceedings.
• Understand factors that impact children including abuse and neglect.
• Undertake Child & Family Assessments demonstrating effective analysis, decision making, planning and review.
• Undertake effective direct work with children and families.
• Creative, flexible and forward thinking in approach.
• Knowledgeable of Child Protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues.
• Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for children.
• Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
• Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service.
• Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis.
• 2 Years plus Qualified.

In this role you will:

• Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
• Manage an agreed case load.
• Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
• Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

• A dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to.
• An easy registration process (all done online).
• Referral schemes and incentives.
• Ongoing compliance managed for you.
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

This role is ideally located for those travelling from various locations including Nottingham, Walsall, Newark on Trent, Loughborough, Leicester, Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Lincoln, Nuneaton, Grantham, Derby, Peterborough, Birmingham, Bloxwich, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth, Shropshire, Coventry, Worcester, Telford, Stafford, Welshpool, Hereford, Wrexham, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Burton-upon-Trent, Wolverhampton, Lichfield, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, and West Bromwich.

If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Family Support Children in Need, Duty and Assessment, Child Protection, Educational Psychologist, Children Looked After, Early Intervention, Children's Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner and Assistant Team Manager.

Not looking right now? We also offer generous referral bonuses so please pass on to a colleague or friend who may be interested.